Convert the colorspace of a PDF from RGB to CMYK under Ubuntu Linux

Note that converting from RGB to CMYK will usually degrade your colors because no exact mapping is possible. Anyway, this Stackoverflow post Show archive.org snapshot worked for me:

gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOCACHE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
-sColorConversionStrategy=CMYK -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceCMYK \
-sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

Henning Koch

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2012-06-17

License

Source code in this card is licensed under the MIT License.

Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2011-08-24 11:52)